Category: SCOM Tricks

Today I was doing a quick installation of the Savision 8.2 Live Maps Unity Portal. Downloaded the self-extracting executable from the website and of course arranged a license key. While running the installer I selected the Express setup which just pushe… more »

Ran into a customer issue today whereby there was a nice clean SCOM 2012 R2 installation with UR's. Certificates arranged and momcertimport ran. On the agent machines in DMZ we had the agent installed, UR on it, certificate root imported, certificate me… more »

I thought I would take a different approach to thinking about how to make a SCOM monitoring project a success. It is not about technical details or designs this time, but about a way to bring business and IT together into monitoring business related ser… more »

In SCOM 2012 R2 we were able to monitor up to 500 Unix/Linux agents per management server or about 100 through a gateway. To be honest I think that was already stretching it, unless the amount of workflows was kept to a minimum.
In SCOM 2016 work has… more »

This blog post will introduce the new SCOM 2016 feature of Management Pack Tuning. It is meant to use alert data from SCOM to determine where tuning may be beneficial.
The way we often used to tune out alerts and management packs was by a few methods… more »

This blog post discussed one of the new features in SCOM 2016 which is the Management Pack Updates and Recommendations. Now this feature addition was introduced I think in SCOM 2016 TP4 preview version already, but I will discuss it now anyway.
All S… more »

Came along a SCOM 2012 R2 instance which was expired. The license key was not entered on time, so SCOM did not work anymore and the SDK refused connection. Look in the event log and you will see that your evaluation version has expired and you need to e… more »

While chatting with some MVP friends of mine about a specific scenario where data from e-mails needed to be read and monitored, there are multiple possibilities to do it. I proposed one possibility which I implemented at a customer a while ago and got a… more »

Bridgeways has been working very hard this last year in coming back into their speed for creating management packs, updating existing ones, making them more intuitive and useful to work with, adding support staff and also hiring a very competent CTO (a… more »

I have written and talked about Jalasofts great tool called Device Simulator. Many people in the monitoring space have been using this tool in previous versions. Today they released a fresh version of this tool to the 5.5 version.
The main additions… more »

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This blog is run by Bob Cornelissen, a System Center enthousiast for a number of years now and managing consultant for BICTT. I work daily with SCOM in designing, implementing, configuring and extending this great product. Also I work with SCVMM, SCDPM, SCE, SCSM, Forefront products and a lot of MS Server technologies.I was very honored to receive the MVP award in 2012 + 2013 + 2014 and the MCC award in 2011 + 2012 for SCOM and System Center. Author of the Mastering SCOM 2012 book.
Also blogging here:Ivan Hadzhiyski - A System Center specialist from Bulgaria specialising in SCCM and SCOM and writer on the Mastering SCOM 2012 team.